Thebalm Cosmetics Foiled Again Eyeshadow Look
I love the Balm Cosmetics. The Balm pours so much thought and originality into every product they release. The Foiled Again: Foil Eyeshadow Palette combines two of my favourite things – eyeshadow and superheroes. The cherry on top of this shimmer shadow sundae is the shades are superhero quality. Doing my makeup with Foiled Again makes me feel like I have superhuman eyeshadow skills. Let's crack open this super palette and see what's inside!
The Balm describes Foiled Again as, " Kapow and wow with our punchy eyeshadow palette! Foiled Again… features a collection of 12 mix-and- match matte and shimmery shades that can be applied dry or wet for an extra boost of color. These super(hero) hues are sure to catch someone's eye, literally ".
Pow! Packaging
KAPOW! FLASH! BANG! Holy fantastic palette Batman! The attention to detail throughout this palette is awesome. The concept and outer packaging of Foiled Again is so unique. Designed to look like the front page of a newspaper, the Foiled Again palette features the "Balm Girl" apprehending your eye (not sure if they were going for a Bond reference there?). A clever way of saying the eye looks created using this palette will be undeniably eye catching – (true).
On the inside of the palette every inch of the "Daily Press" is on theme. The layout of the shadows is aesthetically pleasing and conducive to creating looks – but there's more! Looking at the shade names left to right, each row has a narrative. Each row in the palette is a separate little news story about a superhero's adventure. It's as if the Balm's team are telling the stores of makeup superheroes.
The fun packaging is made of lightweight cardboard. Additional details worth noting – Foiled Again contains a large, good quality mirror. The shades and ingredients are listed on the back of the palette as well as a QR code. The QR code links to an online tutorial using the palette but there is no video currently when I use the code.
The Super Shadows
The Foiled Again palette contains 8 foiled shadows and 4 mattes. All shadows are talc free. The total amount of product in this palette is 9.6 grams.
Mayhem – folied, metallic gold
Busted – foiled, metallic brown with gold shift
Cahoots – folied, metallic deep grey
Behind Bars – foiled, metallic gunmetal
Guilty – foiled, metallic deep fuschia
Red-Handed – foiled, metallic soft red
Captured – foiled, metallic pearl pink
Locked Up – foiled metallic soft lavendar
Unmasked – matte, medium warm brown
Arrested – matte, warm beige
Seized – matte, deep chocolate brown
Incarcerated – matte medium cool brown
Thoughts
I decided not to review each shadow individually because the formula is so consistent throughout palette. I thought it would get a bit boring to read, "this shadow applied beautifully and blends well", 16 times in a row – (but it's true).
All eight foiled shades have a nice silky texture. None of the foiled shadow produced very much fallout. There was the tiniest bit of fallout with Cahoot and Behind Bars but it was a minimal considering both are dark shades.
All eight foiled shadows applied extremely well and had great pigmentation. Mayhem, Cahoot, Behind Bars and Captured were the most densely pigmented of the eight foiled shadows. All eight foiled shadows applied well over primer and over clean, bare skin. I usually wear eyeshadow primer but I could almost go without it these shadows are so pigmented. I got good wear time out of the eight foiled shadows, I didn't notice any fading or creasing for 6+ hours.
Moving on to the mattes! The shade selection is super. Foiled Again includes a mix of functional warm and cool toned browns. I prefer when brands include a dark brown instead of a jet black in palettes. I find deep browns are more versatile than blacks.
I really enjoy the formula of the four mattes. The four matte shadows can be easily blended together. These mattes are on the dryer side, (particularly Seized), but all four perform well and have solid pigmented. If I had to live the rest of my life with only these four mattes I could make that work.
Swatches
Foiled Again is such a creative palette. I love products that embrace the fact that makeup is supposed to be fun. The Balm sets the bar very high for other brands trying to create imaginative, intriguing, high quality products. The inside of Foiled Again indicates this is Volume 1. of a series. Hopefully that mean another instalment of Foiled Again…the adventure of the Balm Girl is coming in the future.
Have a super day,
Kayla
Source: https://kaylaonthego.home.blog/2019/01/26/the-balm-cosmetics-foiled-again-superhero-eyeshadow-review/
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